Why the world had to be the way it is! – basically life – amazingly both on a macro and micro level follows the following pattern (it is the super-pattern of the spiritual cosmos which descend into our own destiny) first comes love, then comes the sting, then comes truth! – from a macro level, the first two thousand years, God created a world of incredible abundance – people lived close to a thousand years – the land gave them everything – but they simply became selfish narcissistic jerks – then came the sting – apart from the psychological trauma of wiping out the world, he reduced mans year’s till a hundred and twenty (this has a profound effect, for now people see people dying and it reduced their pride, stemming from invincibility delusions) Eventually God gave the Torah and reveals truth/s – and in our own lives we are born (hopefully into) security and love; again we become very much a creature of our desires – then we go to the next level which is the sting, something rocks (if we are fortunate as the verse states, “He who God loves, he chastises”) our boat (the nature of trauma is that it is psychologically distributing – it shakes the very truths we thought to be inalienable – such as our dignity etc.) but this allows the real truth, that all is God and life is a sequence of infinite growth – begins